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As regards the Meacham Crum affair allow me to volunteer the information that this fellow Meacham first came to Tulsa in company with "Crazy John" another bravado character. both being left here by a cheap carnival company with which they were connected as expert motoroycle riders. This was some years ago but since that time he has acquired a host of friends among the younger chauffer element because of his daredevil vehicluar stunts and bravado demeanour.

To these young sprouts who worship him because of his prowess with a motoroyole and his nerve to drive a piece of police machinery down the public streets faster than anyone else would dare to, his treatment of Mr. Crum was heroic and entirely justified. It is because of the concerted boast of these young hero worshipers, that "Meacham is still in the posession of his star and pistOl and will eventually show up on the pay roll of the police department or of Mr Gustafsons private detective agency," that this letter was conceived. The information contained herein may be taken for what it is worth.

Commissioner Adkisons statement that Meacham was a detective of more than ordinary ability can only be taken as evidence of the hysteria in which he finds himself in trying to defend that branch of his trust which is rapidly loosing in public esteem. His statement that Meacham and his partner had recovered $140.000 worth of stolen automobiles is very misleading. Nearly all the stolen machines recovered by the police are recovered upon information of citizens that they have been abandoned under suspicous circumstances. That Meachams chauffer friends should give hlim preference in these calls might have had something to do with his elevation to the stolen car department, but that the stolen car department should have credit for the recoveries of all the policemen is hardly to be expected, even from Mr Adkison in his ambiguous defense. If you were to pin Mr Adkison down to it he would have to admit that the $I40.000 recovered was the results of all the policemen and simply credited to the stolen car department as a matter of form.

As to Meachams army record as vouched for by that "Angel of Uplift" attorney Martindale who said he was one of the first to answer his country,s call; he answered when the draft got him and KKK did all his fighting on the paved streets of El Paso Texas. As to his partner who was so instrumental in the recovery of stolen property; he is a "hangover" from the Bohn administration whose own fugitive offspring has contributed as muoh toward local delinquency as any single element in the city's history. Time was when he was a very likeable sort of ranchman till his love for liquor outgrew his love for the ranch and he spent much time in the lowly marts of town as a pleminary to winding up on the police force. Taxicab men declare that this pair representing the stolen car department would convoy a load of liquor into town in return for the least information conoerning stolen property and that they were not averse to taking a little nip in the wee small hours of the morning. They are quite certain that the preacher was wrong and the policeman right in the police station affair of the two.

As regards the Meacham Crum affair allow me to volunteer the information that this fellow Meacham first came to Tulsa in company with "Crazy John" another bravado character. both being left here by a cheap carnival company with which they were connected as expert motoroycle riders. This was some years ago but since that time he has acquired a host of friends among the younger chauffer element because of his daredevil vehicluar stunts and bravado demeanour.

To these young sprouts who worship him because of his prowess with a motoroyole and his nerve to drive a piece of police machinery down the public streets faster than anyone else would dare to, his treatment of Mr. Crum was heroic and entirely justified. It is because of the concerted boast of these young hero worshipers, that "Meacham is still in the posession of his star and pistOl and will eventually show up on the pay roll of the police department or of Mr Gustafsons private detective agency," that this letter was conceived. The information contained herein may be taken for what it is worth.

Commissioner Adkisons statement that Meacham was a detective of more than ordinary ability can only be taken as evidence of the hysteria in which he finds himself in trying to defend that branch of his trust which is rapidly loosing in public esteem. His statement that Meacham and his partner had recovered $140.000 worth of stolen automobiles is very misleading. Nearly all the stolen machines recovered by the police are recovered upon information of citizens that they have been abandoned under suspicous circumstances. That Meachams chauffer friends should give hlim preference in these calls might have had something to do with his elevation to the stolen car department, but that the stolen car department should have credit for the recoveries of all the policemen is hardly to be expected, even from Mr Adkison in his ambiguous defense. If you were to pin Mr Adkison down to it he would have to admit that the $I40.000 recovered was the results of all the policemen and simply credited to the stolen car department as a matter of form.

As to Meachams army record as vouched for by that "Angel of Uplift" attorney Martindale who said he was one of the first to answer his country,s call; he answered when the draft got him and KKK did all his fighting on the paved streets of El Paso Texas. As to his partner who was so instrumental in the recovery of stolen property; he is a "hangover" from the Bohn administration whose own fugitive offspring has contributed as muoh toward local delinquency as any single element in the city's history. Time was when he was a very likeable sort of ranchman till his love for liquor outgrew his love for the ranch and he spent much time in the lowly marts of town as a pleminary to winding up on the police force. Taxicab men declare that this pair representing the stolen car department would convoy a load of liquor into town in return for the least information conoerning stolen property and that they were not averse to taking a little nip in the wee small hours of the morning. They are quite certain that the preacher was wrong and the policeman right in the police station affair of the two.